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Famous Sri Lankan weightlifter Chinthana Geetal Vidanage has used illegal
stimuli during 2011 Asian Weightlifting Championship which held recent April in
China.
Chinthana won the fourth place of the tournament and his test sample was found
containing illegal stimuli and he was temporally banned to participate any of
the games. This was informed by the Asian weight lifting Federation to the
National Weight Lifting Federation of Sri Lanka.
It has been noticed that Chinthana’s test sample consists of a High Protein
which has taken as a supplement. Due to the overdose amount it had Chinthana
has been banned. The element was a newly identified illegal stimulus which is
not used to physical growth but for the mental growth.
If it is proved that Chinthana has used illegal stimuli he will be banned for
six months for sure. But he still has the chance to show that he has not done
something so by appealing for a B sample test.
Meanwhile it says that Chinthaka has been under medical treatments of the
Doctor in Kurunegala where the Boxer Manju Wanniarachchi also has been.
However The National Anti Doping Organization(NADO) is to do a further
investigation on this sooner.
Chinthana was the first weightlifter to won a gold medal for Sri Lanka in the
men’s 62 kg category weightlifting in the 2006 Commonwealth Games held in
Australia.
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